2.3 WEAKNESSES AND SPECIFIC STRUCTURAL HANDICAPS . 7

These handicaps to the country s development grew worse over time.

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The importance of environmental factors in the creation of handicaps was underlined.

India has many handicaps and lacks many of the things that are needed to sustain rapid growth.

Adjusting yourself to marriage, Ruby, is a job all by itself without assuming extra handicaps at the start.

Above all, it should develop a public education programme to counter cultural handicaps and stereotypes and practices like polygamy.

54. Tourism development can, however, be hindered by island specific handicaps such as smallness, remoteness or an archipelagic topography.

In many of those island countries, such development handicaps had even led some to question their very economic viability.

That won t be easy. India has many handicaps and lacks many of the things that are needed to sustain rapid growth.

Special support will be given to the least developed and other developing countries facing handicaps where external assistance is particularly important.

Investments in physical infrastructure such as transport, water, sanitation, power and communications, unlock growth potentials and overcome geographical handicaps in low income countries.

For nearly 30 years, market access preferences have been granted to alleviate the competitive handicaps of LDCs and facilitate their economic growth through export diversification.

The mandate under which UNPROFOR now operates in Srebrenica handicaps UNPROFOR in carrying out its mission namely, protecting the town apos s 60,000 civilian inhabitants.

But these movies are made to be understood despite such handicaps, and she has a great time in the song and the dance and the action.

All of my kids are either IEP or ELL learners, most come with a lot of handicaps, most are homeless and many are in foster care.

These handicaps, however, have not deterred us from our determination to cooperate fully with the international community by instituting structural adjustment programmes and economic liberalization policies, including privatization.

That approach ignores the particular needs and concerns of small island developing States and the fact that one size does not fit all because of their structural handicaps and inherent vulnerability.

92. Postal services were traditionally underdeveloped in the transition economies due to organizational and material handicaps, the consequences of which continue in the form of limited administrative experience and a trained workforce.

But a sector by sector approach could mitigate these handicaps, and, given the pressing need to address demand for energy and climate change, it might be strategically advisable to start with the energy sector.

The least developed countries are continuing to experience a deterioration of their socio economic situation owing to profound structural constraints and handicaps which reduce their ability to overcome the negative impact of external factors.

In the case of Mongolia, aside from such handicaps as a low level of development and a disadvantageous geographical location, our economy, in fact, finds itself dependent on another crisis stricken country in transition.

These are handicaps that, inter alia, limit these States apos opportunities for the kind of economic and social development that would be in keeping with the particular characteristics of their natural and environmental surroundings.

Small developing, landlocked and least developed countries in particular have faced disadvantages due to lack of awareness, limited capacity and geographical handicaps, impeding their optimal realization of the benefits from the world's oceans and seas.

11. Albania suffers from a number of weaknesses and handicaps which impede economic development in the longer term and are structural in that they are relatively immune to economic policy interventions in the short and medium term.

We all have our specific problems, our differences, our advantages and our handicaps. We all have many unresolved questions which stem from an international situation where the factors of political and economic instability are becoming increasingly frequent.

96. The Mission noted that the people of Tokelau are fully aware of the unique characteristics of their Territory and the serious handicaps that could arise from such factors as size, remoteness and vulnerability to natural disaster.

As can be recalled, the Mauritius International Meeting significantly advanced recognition of the fact that such States require special treatment because of their structural handicaps and inherent vulnerability and the fact that one size does not fit all.

31. Despite the lack of basic drugs, doctors and medical staff and other serious handicaps, the infant mortality rate had decreased in 1991 to 22.7 per 1,000 live births, and efforts were being made to decrease it further.

The gross national product (GNP) per capita, the yardstick generally used to measure the level of development, did not by itself adequately reflect their vulnerability to external influences, nor the various handicaps with which they had to contend.

UNCTAD is to help developing countries to overcome their handicaps in this sector, enhancing their international competitiveness so as to increase their participation in world trade in services as well as the contribution of services to their sustainable development.

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Special Adviser to the Secretary General on MDGs, participated from New York through video conference and made a substantive presentation on the impact of geographical handicaps of the landlocked developing countries on their efforts to attain MDGs.

She noted the paramount importance of special and differential treatment to offset the structural handicaps of LDCs and welcomed the most recent aid, debt relief and market access initiatives in favour of low income countries in general and LDCs in particular.

The meeting has been planned to coordinate with the next international meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) on revision of the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps, also to be held in the Netherlands, from 14 to 18 November 1994.

The possible effects of gender , race or origin based discrimination were evaluated and attention was paid to the factors that could aggravate the risk of violence, such as mental or physical handicaps, poverty and the vulnerability of specific groups of children, particularly migrant, indigenous or minority children.

That element is of particular importance, as landlocked developing countries face additional border crossings, which increase transaction costs and discourage trade. Efficient trade facilitating measures would go a long way towards tackling the high trade transaction costs borne by the landlocked developing countries because of their geographical handicaps.

Regarding the urgent need to make progress in fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals for the least developed countries, he said that success in that respect depended on the Brussels, Barbados and Almaty programmes because they dealt with the specific measures necessary to overcome the handicaps of those countries.

First, he said, the wounds caused by the period of conflict needed to be healed secondly, there was a need to reduce progressively the economic and social handicaps and thirdly, problems related to urban segregation, unemployment, alcohol and drug abuse among the young required attention as a matter of priority. 4

The Project for the Creation of Integration into Employment Centres for the Handicapped is designed to make use of the infrastructure and staff of the Multiple Care Centres (CAM) which offer vocational training, in order to establish within those centres agencies for integration into employment both for inmates and for non inmates with handicaps requiring the service.